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The Architecture and Urban Design section keeps all aspects of the built environment in mind – from the construction of a building’s details to the megastructures within the urban landscape. We are concerned with how we can influence the built environment and its development, and how we can create and use new knowledge across different disciplines within architecture, engineering, and urban design.

Section ofArchitecture & Urban Design

The Architecture and Urban Design section keeps all aspects of the built environment in mind – from the construction of a building’s details to the megastructures within the urban landscape. We are concerned with how we can influence the built environment and its development, and how we can create and use new knowledge across different disciplines within architecture, engineering, and urban design.

Unique research and education environments

In the section for Architecture & Urban Design, we conduct research in and teach about the built environment. Our research and teaching deals  in a broad sense with designing the city's spaces and buildings.

By our research and teaching, we want discuss and develop the built environment. Concepts such as critical, curious, creative, democratic, aesthetic, and technical are key keywords here. We are a academic environment that wants to contribute with knowledge that can develop, influence and critically discuss the sustainable society of the future, and the role that architecture and the built environment play in this.

The section creates the framework for two unique education and research environments:  'Urban Design' and 'Architectural Engineering'. These two areas are
at the forefront in their respective fields and deliver a high professional level through integrated and interdisciplinary design research. Here, we combine design and technology with social science competences.

Researchers and students often collaborate with various actors in society to develop new solutions and methods within the built environment.

Users, technology, sustainability, and method

We work from four perspectives:

  • Users: We focus on how architecture affects our body (and vice versa) and on creating a collaborative practice for architecture and urban
    design that rests on user involvement and co-creation.
  • Technology: We test and develop, among other things, new building components and new computer-based methods for designing architecture. We also use various tracking technologies to understand urban behavior.
  • Sustainability: The section's perspective on sustainability covers both social and environmental sustainability. Among other things, we focus on locally based architecture, zero energy buildings and constructions, social inclusion, and climate change.
  • Method: Our methodological approach rests on the use of several different methods and on the research methods that are part of the architectural and urban design subjects, e.g. drawing and visualization. This enables us to gain knowledge about the built environment through, for example, scenario building and experiments.

Internationally experienced researchers

The section for Architecture and Urban Design consists of international
experienced researchers and practitioners from different professional backgrounds, such as architecture, urban design, engineering, and social sciences.

Portræt af Lea Holst Laursen

Lea Holst Laursen
Section Leader, Architecture & Urban Design, Aalborg
llhl@create.aau.dk
99407174

Research groups

Architecture & Urban Design i Aalborg consists of following research groups:

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